Iowa's Research and Welfare Station for Normal Children -- Indian Summer in Iowa -- Encouragement in Writing -- 1919-1889-30 -- An Eventful Day in the Quillayute Country -- The Iowa Memorial Union -- Site, Scope, and Design of the Union -- Come...
A documentary about the visiting writers' experience in Iowa City. Each of the authors listed above is featured briefly and each relates some aspect of his or her visit. The writers are featured in a variety of settings: in Iowa City's Riverside...
The recording begins with a clip of Fall reading one of her poems. The interview begins. Fall talks about the large role languages play in her life: she speaks English, Wolof, French, and German. Fall says that she writes in Wolof and then...
Manju Sarkar discusses the topic, "Islam and We," from the perspective of a Bengali whose name doesn't identify him as Muslim and Hindu in a secular country, framing his comments through a history of colonialism and the beginning of Bengali...
Fadhil Thamir considers justice "part of our aspiration to discover truth and freedom," tackling the panel topic by asking whether we can "make a dream true?" Ken Bugul also considers justice to be an idea better fit for imagination than reality,...
Kavery Nambisan describes the migrant writer's thought-space, not losing rootedness whether traveling in the real or in the imagination. Saša Stanišić's talk is titled, "How You See Us: on Three Myths about Migrant Writing," and covers the myth...
Ian Rosales Casocot from the Philippines relates two ancient oral tales: a creation story and an adventure story. He relates these simple stories to how he feels writers create worlds and develop a sense of place just as the characters in the tales...